Welcome
to the month of March
Yesterday’s
message was titled “BEFORE YOU GET ANGRY”. Today’s message is
titled “IN MEMORIAL” as provided by Pastor E. A. Adeboye in
Open Heavens Devotional (Adeboye, 2014). In today’s message, we have been asked
to memorise Mark 14:9: "Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel
shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she
hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her." and read Mark 14:6-9. The Bible in one year reading for today has been
taken from Jeremiah 19:1 Jeremiah 22:10 and Psalm 49.
Quoted
below is the message for today. God bless you for your contribution.
"Jesus Christ
was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper. As He sat down to eat, a
woman came with a costly perfumed ointment and poured it on his head.
Some hypocrites saw it as a waste of resources because they felt the
ointment could have been sold for a great deal of money which could have
been given to the poor. Jesus saw their ulterior motives and in Mark
14:6-7 said:
’’.....let her
alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have
the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good:
but me ye have not always.”
It is amazing to
see people think that whatever someone does for his or her Maker is a
waste, as we see In this story. To the surprise of those who were present
at that place, Jesus said the woman shall forever be remembered for
that singular act of anointing His body in preparation for
His burial! There are lots of lessons to be learnt from this
story; one of such lessons is that the body of our aged
parents should be prepared for ‘burial’ a long time before they
die. How? By taking good care of them while they are alive. When they
die and we buy golden caskets to bury them or we buy 1,000 cows to
entertain guests at their burial, it is a mere exercise in futility. The dead
do not appreciate golden caskets, neither do they eat delicacies from
fattend cows. If we live by this principle, the law of harvest will come
to play down the line.
”And when he looked
on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy
prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.” Acts 10:4
Another lesson we
learn from this story is that whatever we do for God is not only appreciated
now, it is also kept in divine memory! Can you imagine that what a woman did
over 2,000 years ago is still being talked about in the 21st century? Jesus
said that the woman's good deed shall be spoken of wherever the gospel shall be
preached. In addition, we must learn not to listen to what people say whenever
we are moved, particularly by the Holy Spirit, to do something for God
(Galatians 1:15-16). The story was told of one of my sons, who on receiving a
divine call into the ministry, was advised by some people that he was too young
to waste away his youthful vigour preaching the gospel; ”such a task is meant
for drop-outs”, they said to him. The young man shunned this deadly counsel and
went ahead to resign his secular appointment with the Government. Today, he is
fulfilled, joyfully doing what God has called him to do."
Today's action
point is that What is that thing that God is asking you to do for Him? go ahead and do
it NOW.
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